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Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity (Framing the Global) by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Nathan Riley Carpenter, Nathan Riley Carpenter, Benjamin N. Lawrance is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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“This rich volume will interest scholars and students of Africa, the African diaspora, world history, legal history, and international affairs.” —Lorelle Semley, author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic EmpireThe enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples.The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an “archive” that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspo

Author

Benjamin N. Lawrance, Nathan Riley Carpenter, Nathan Riley Carpenter, Benjamin N. Lawrance

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253038104

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology